I have a UILabel
with CALayer
shadow on.And I just move it around via UIView
animation.
The performance is poor and I can see the animation is not smooth at all.
I think it is the shadow of the UILabel
which causes the animation problem because if I turn the shadow off, the animation becomes as smooth as normal.
I have tried using view.layer.shouldRasterize = YES;
But still the animation performance is there.
Anyone can give me some hints?
Thanks
You can greatly improve the performance of a CALayer’s shadow by using its shadowPath
property—this allows it to draw the shadow without having to recalculate the alpha mask of the layer. For a rectangular view, you’d use it like this:
theView.layer.shadowPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:theView.bounds].CGPath;
or, if its corners are rounded,
theView.layer.shadowPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:theView.bounds cornerRadius:theView.layer.cornerRadius].CGPath;
Note that this is a shadow around the view’s borders—if you want better performance on the shadow on the text itself, you either need to use the label’s text-shadow properties (which sacrifice the niceties of CALayer shadows, like blur, for better rendering speed) or—a much more complicated option—create a CGPathRef to use as the layer’s shadowPath
from the text glyphs themselves.
Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for but I found this: Drop Shadow on UITextField text
It may be better performance, I haven't tried it but it seems it would be.